Thread (20 messages) 20 messages, 5 authors, 2021-05-25

Re: [PATCH 5/5] mm/page_alloc: improve memmap_pages and dma_reserve dbg msg

From: David Hildenbrand <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-25 08:11:55
Also in: lkml

On 17.05.21 13:20, Dong Aisheng wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Make debug message more accurately.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@nxp.com>
---
  mm/page_alloc.c | 5 +++--
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 3100fcb08500..16f494352f58 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -7263,14 +7263,15 @@ static void __init free_area_init_core(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
  					pr_debug("  %s zone: %lu pages used for memmap\n",
  						 zone_names[j], memmap_pages);
  			} else
-				pr_warn("  %s zone: %lu pages exceeds freesize %lu\n",
+				pr_warn("  %s zone: %lu memmap pages exceeds freesize %lu\n",
  					zone_names[j], memmap_pages, freesize);
  		}
  
  		/* Account for reserved pages */
  		if (j == 0 && freesize > dma_reserve) {
  			freesize -= dma_reserve;
-			pr_debug("  %s zone: %lu pages reserved\n", zone_names[0], dma_reserve);
+			pr_debug("  %s zone: %lu pages reserved for dma\n",
+				 zone_names[0], dma_reserve);
... which is not really correct I think. See the comment above 
set_dma_reserve(). It's called dma_reserve because it involves the first 
zone -- where many unfreeable allocations like the kernel image end up.

Memory is not reserved for dma purposes ... and the zone name should be 
sufficient.

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb

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